Polycoeliidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlerophyllinaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 165 million years on record.

The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 137 occurrencesSilurian — about 1 of 137 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 137 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 12 of 137 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 123 of 137 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 137 occurrences447–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–434 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences434–427 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences427–420 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences420–414 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences414–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences361–354 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences354–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–341 Mya — about 1 occurrence341–334 Mya — about 3 occurrences334–328 Mya — about 2 occurrences328–321 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences321–314 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences314–308 Mya — about 2 occurrences308–301 Mya — about 2 occurrences301–294 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences294–288 Mya — about 5 occurrences288–281 Mya — about 8 occurrences281–275 Mya — about 9 occurrences275–268 Mya — about 10 occurrences268–261 Mya — about 16 occurrences261–255 Mya — about 53 occurrences255–248 Mya — about 21 occurrences419.62 Mya254.14 Mya447 Mya248 Mya

137 occurrences of Polycoeliidae on record, most of them in the Permian. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

137 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

54 formations

Zechstein — 50.69°N, 10.93°EZechstein — 50.90°N, 10.45°EZechstein — 50.70°N, 11.60°EZechstein — 50.70°N, 10.16°EZechstein — 51.52°N, 11.55°EWegener Halvo — 74.02°N, 21.84°WWegener Halvo — 74.01°N, 21.42°WAkhura — 38.98°N, 45.53°EBagh-e Vang — 33.98°N, 56.79°EBagh-e Vang — 33.58°N, 57.20°EKhivach — 62.75°N, 159.50°EKhivach — 62.78°N, 159.36°ETrold Fiord — 80.38°N, 81.79°WTrold Fiord — 79.52°N, 83.35°WTrold Fiord — 81.17°N, 79.13°WTrold Fiord — 76.01°N, 108.00°WFord — 54.89°N, 1.41°WLangcuo — 29.15°N, 88.20°EOrlovka — 65.78°N, 59.45°EKapp Starostin — 77.00°N, 16.22°EKapp Starostin — 78.08°N, 13.80°EZhesi — 42.67°N, 110.46°EMaokou — 23.71°N, 109.24°EMaokou — 29.41°N, 103.55°EKozhimrudnik — 65.75°N, 59.53°EAli Bashi — 39.60°N, 45.15°EAli Bashi — 38.98°N, 45.53°EDegerbols — 81.07°N, 85.67°WYuquan — 45.41°N, 127.17°E"Amushan" — 44.35°N, 117.65°EBellerophon — 43.71°N, 18.75°EHenryhouse — 35.08°N, 98.24°WCracoe Limestone — 54.05°N, 2.02°WSchuchert Dal — 72.00°N, 23.00°WGriotte — 44.00°N, 4.50°EUm Bogma — 29.06°N, 33.13°EPicos de Europa — 43.32°N, 5.05°W

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The named rock units Polycoeliidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Polycoeliidae and its relatives

Permian

Where Polycoeliidae and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

969 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 97 sites for Polycoeliidae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

61 references

Each of the 137 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 49 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Polycoeliidae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Polycoeliidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Polycoeliidae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fromentel 1861